Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold winter morning knows how unpredictably exciting the internal combustion engine can be. After last week's British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Jim Clark (TIME, cover, July 9) has had just about all the excitement he can stand. There he was in his little green Lotus, leading Graham Hill by a comfortable 35 sec., with the race four-fifths over. Coming out of a bend, Clark stepped on the accelerator. Gasp. Cough...
Apparently his spark plugs were fouled. Hill's B.R.M. pit crew heard the rough engine too. Graham caught their frantic signals, grimly poured it on. Drifting through the corners as tightly as possible, slipstreaming other cars to gain momentum before he passed, Hill began to eat into Clark's lead at the rate of 3 sec. or more a lap. Clark knew Hill was coming; he kept glancing over his shoulder, ducking back to fiddle with his controls, trying to coax some response out of his sputtering engine...
...away with the race for his first Grand Prix victory. Before the year was out, he had won two more, heard himself hailed as "the new Stirling Moss." All that praise was flattering, but Jim would have preferred to win the championship that went instead to Britain's Graham Hill. He would have had it, too, if "one bloody little runt of a screw" had not fallen off the distributor shaft and let loose his oil while he was leading in the South African Grand Prix...
Robert N. Anthony, Ross Graham Walker Professor of Management Controls, has been named an assistant secretary of defense, the White House announced this week. He will take a two-year leave of absence from Harvard beginning September...
...wears an old green eyeshade when he interviews inmates ("It reminds them of the man behind the tables at Reno") and tells them: "I'm not here with answers. I'm just here to share with you what you've been going through." Colorado's Graham, like other chaplains, is aware that prisoners actively dislike people "messing around with their minds," and that sometimes a jolt of realism does as much good as a soft word. Lutheran Lindberg bluntly tells down-in-the-mouth prisoners that "if they think they are bastards they're going...